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Chris Harper Mercer, Oregon Gunman, Is Recalled as a Recluse Close to His Mother
NY Times ^ | Oct. . 2, 2015

Posted on 10/02/2015 3:30:59 AM PDT by nuconvert

Chris Harper Mercer, the man identified as the gunman in the deadly rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday, was a withdrawn young man who neighbors said wore the same outfit every day — combat boots, green Army pants and a white T-shirt — and was close to his mother, who fiercely protected him.

Neighbors in Winchester, Ore., and Torrance, Calif., where Mr. Mercer, 26, lived with his mother, Laurel Harper, remember a reclusive and seemingly fragile young man with a shaved head and dark glasses who seemed to recoil from social interaction.

“He always seemed anxious,” said Rosario Lucumi, 51, who rode the same bus in Torrance as Mr. Mercer when she went to work.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chrisharpermercer; oregon; oregonshooting; umpqua
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To: nuconvert

Once again , Obama jumped the gun for political purposes in his jihad to take away guns.

Fact is, this is ANOTHER MENTALLY ILL person. Did Obama once mention that All OF THESE CASES ARE TIED TO MENTAL ILLNESS, OR DOES HE NEGLECT THAT FACT TO PUSH HIS ANTI-GUN NONSENSE?


41 posted on 10/02/2015 6:31:36 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro
In fact 0bama was well aware of all of the evidence when he made his speech. These people are completely without scruples just like their father, the father of lies....
42 posted on 10/02/2015 6:38:14 AM PDT by haywoodwebb (Telling people the truth about Jesus is all that really matters now...)
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To: 1Old Pro
We don't have a gun problem; we have a mental-health problem, thanks to the brilliant policy of “mainstreaming” folks who should be in a controlled facility for their own and others’ well-being.
43 posted on 10/02/2015 6:52:50 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: tuffydoodle
I’m thinking if he was asking people their religion and shooting them in the head when they said Christian, the guy was homosexual and on the rampage. Has anyone brought this up?

Yeah, I thought of that or that he was a liberal. Libs hate religion and especially Christianity. After it was found out the Pope met with that lady from Kentucky, the libs exploded on twitter.

44 posted on 10/02/2015 6:56:13 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Just how did he get four firearms with a mental illness record?


45 posted on 10/02/2015 7:07:38 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: CincyRichieRich
He’s being called bi-racial; do you think if he had done something good he’d be called bi-racial, or black? Hint: George Zimmerman is a “white hispanic”. Divide and conquer?

Obama's mother was white and his father was black, so Obama is black. This guy though, is bi-racial. Hmm ...

46 posted on 10/02/2015 7:16:36 AM PDT by Dartman
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas
I have not read the article, but she says they talk a LOT about the mother without mentioning the fact that she is black and “apparently” AN IMMIGRANT.

The clue was that she has a real name.

47 posted on 10/02/2015 7:21:59 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: Stand Watch Listen

And the New York Times takes great pains to refer to him as “Mr. Mercer”. Repeatedly.

Disgusting.


48 posted on 10/02/2015 7:27:30 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: AppyPappy

Wonder what SSRI drugs he was on. We’ll never know.


49 posted on 10/02/2015 7:29:31 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: nuconvert
How do young people get so screwed up mentally? There seems to be a lot of lonely young people out there with no sense of power to create a happy future for themselves. I see a lot of that nowadays. Loneliness, isolation, alienation, paranoia - my world is coming to an end, etc. How do you convince people that these feelings are not really coming from the outside world?

Life doesn't need to be so hard.

50 posted on 10/02/2015 7:30:43 AM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“That sounds a little like a description of Adama Lanza from Sandy Hook, CT”

It sounds almost identical


51 posted on 10/02/2015 7:50:53 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: dragonblustar

He was mentally ill


52 posted on 10/02/2015 7:56:30 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: riverdawg

I agree


53 posted on 10/02/2015 7:56:51 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: pabianice

“Just how did he get four firearms with a mental illness record?”

I’m waiting to hear the answer to that, too


54 posted on 10/02/2015 7:58:47 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Raebie

Someone said he used the handle, “Lithium Love”, so I’m guessing he was supposed to be on lithium. Probably off his meds for a while leading up to this.


55 posted on 10/02/2015 8:01:34 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: pabianice

Mahmoud Ali Ehsani?


56 posted on 10/02/2015 8:03:27 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Raebie

Probably yet another mere coincidence.


57 posted on 10/02/2015 8:07:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: nuconvert

was close to his mother, who fiercely protected him....
just like the sandy hook mom did...


58 posted on 10/02/2015 8:07:21 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: riverdawg

We have a problem of excusing a lack of character as “emotional problems” that need to be treated by therapists.


59 posted on 10/02/2015 8:11:24 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: nuconvert

Oh, bs. Unless his toaster told him to kill those people, he was perfectly sane and rational. He hated the world and rejected God’s commandments because society told him he could.


60 posted on 10/02/2015 8:18:03 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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